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Signs are a great source of unintentional humor
Whether signs accomplish the unintentional through Freudian slips or dyslexic blips doesn't matter; we still laugh. What's YOUR sign? Pam and I vividly recall one particular goodie from our long haul trucking days. We were back East somewhere at the time, Ohio or Pennsylvania. It was summertime, good weather, and that meant plenty of highway construction. It was also Sunday, and the construction crews were apparently on schedule. At least they weren't working, and we had the roadway pretty much to ourselves...except for about a gazillion of those orange cones and the occasional printed warning. You've seen them, those wonderfully engineered marvels of the open road that help us understand EXACTLY where we are and where we're going. Like the following photo of a real warning on the Big Island of Hawaii. Of course, there's nothing humorous about it... unless you thought your front wheel drive sedan with automatic transmission could survive a grade like that. The car wouldn't think it was funny, though.
No, that sign's not funny at all. But on our Eastern-U.S. unpaved, under construction, thankfully LEVEL roadway that day, we were startled by one warning that stood out from all the rest. It was clearly important, meant to be seen, and it said:
================================================================= UNEVEN JONIT ================================================================= What the--! My wife and I were going, "Uneven jonit? What's a jonit?" We found out. Parallel lanes, where we were running our 18-wheeler at about 45 miles per hour, were partially paved. Some more partially than others, as it turned out. At the seam between two of the lanes, there was a dropoff of several inches. Yup. You got it. Uneven JOINT. Why it didn't say something like DROPOFF BETWEEN LANES or some such, we'll never know. We'll also never comprehend how whoever designed those signs could miss that. For that matter, how could the other workers miss it? But then again, maybe they didn't miss it at all. Maybe those signs were the humor focus of their workdays and they simply chose not to bother to mention it to anyone, giggling behind their coffee cups and bologna sandwiches on break. Who knows? Feel free to send us YOUR favorite unintentional signs by simply describing them on the contact form below. If you have a photo to go with it, you're also welcome to email it to us (poetichu@poetic-humor.com). If you don't, no big.
If you enter a bit of unintentional humor from SIGNS you've seen on the form above, here is what we will do in return: 1. Read it very carefully and with respect. 2. If it is clean and humorous, I will publish it on a special poetic-humor Contributions Page for a minimum of three months. (To see how that works, click on the Contributions button, then on any Name Link shown on that page.) 3. If your creation does not quite fit our website, we will let you know AND let you know why. A point about copyright: You retain all rights to the material you submit with one exception: Poetic-humor.com receives the right to publish said material on this website for a period not to exceed one year. A point about copyright: You further certify that any and all bits of sign humor you submit are your original discoveries (i.e. not published elsewhere to your knowledge) and that you hold us harmless from any legal action should such not be the case. Please feel free to submit as many bits of unintentional humor as you like; we look forward to receiving every one. With appreciation, Fred Signs Of Amusement Home Unintentional Humor For A FREE Personal Shopping Mall, Click Here!
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